Musnad Ahmad 20961

The Musnad of Imam Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal — Arabic text with Shuʿayb al-Arnaʾūṭ’s comment and, where available, an Urdu translation

Risāla number (standard): 20961
Qurṭuba number: 20998
Printed (Qurṭuba edition): vol. 5, p. 101

Companion section: ومن حديث أبي عبد الرحمن عن مشايخه من حديث جابر بن سمرة عن(أول مسند الكوفيين)

حدثنا عبد الله حدثني أبي ثنا يحيى عن شعبة حدثني سماك قال قلت لجابر بن سمرة : كيف كان النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم يصنع إذا صلى الفجر قال كان يجلس في مصلاه حتى تطلع الشمس

Urdu translation

حضرت جابر بن سمرہ (رض) کی مرویات

سماک نے حضرت جابر (رض) سے پوچھا کہ نماز فجر کے بعد نبی (صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم) کا کیا معمول تھا انھوں نے فرمایا کہ طلوع آفتاب تک اپنی جگہ پر ہی بیٹھے رہتے تھے۔

Matched to this hadith automatically by its Arabic text, which is the same in both.

Comment of Shuʿayb al-Arnaʾūṭ (Qurṭuba edition)

إسناده حسن من أجل سماك

Quoted as he wrote it. It is his assessment — Hidayah24 does not grade hadith.

Isnād — the people who carried this hadith

5 narrators · 0 identified

The printed Musnad begins with the book’s own transmission: «ḥaddathanā ʿAbd Allāh» is Aḥmad’s son ʿAbd Allāh (d. 290), who narrates the book from him, and «ḥaddathanī abī» is Aḥmad himself; the hadith’s own chain follows them.

Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal (d. 241)(compiler)
حدثنا— Heard directly from the teacher (samāʿ)
عبد الله
حدثني— Heard directly from the teacher (samāʿ)
أبي
ثنا— Heard directly from the teacher (samāʿ)
يحيى
عن— ʿAnʿana — hearing not stated; scrutinised for a mudallis
شعبة
حدثني— Heard directly from the teacher (samāʿ)
سماك

Names are exactly as printed. A narrator is identified only where that is certain; tapping any other name searches for the possible men. Grades are the rijāl works’ — reliable narrators alone do not make a hadith ṣaḥīḥ (irregularity and hidden defects are weighed too).